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Exploring the convergence of theology, consumerism, food, ecology and economyThu, 23 Oct 2014 20:18:11 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on All Things New by Run the Race in Such A Way... - Lucas M. Landhttps://wwje.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/all-things-new/#comment-1528
Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:18:11 +0000http://wwje.wordpress.com/?p=1400#comment-1528[…] preached at my alma mater in September. It went well. I was honest about where I was at and what God is doing […]
]]>Comment on Food in the Bible: Exodus 20:8-11 by Idolatry and Sabbath Part 1: Leviticus 26:1-2 - Lucas M. Landhttps://wwje.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/food-in-the-bible-exodus-208-11/#comment-1527
Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:23:26 +0000http://wwje.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/food-in-the-bible-exodus-208-11/#comment-1527[…] that does sound nice). The sabbatical laws include the Sabbath day in the creation narrative and enshrined in Exodus (20:8-11), the Sabbatical year every seventh year to give the land rest and culminate in the […]
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Tue, 21 Oct 2014 02:28:30 +0000http://wwje.wordpress.com/?p=1683#comment-1524Thanks.
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Mon, 20 Oct 2014 21:53:08 +0000http://wwje.wordpress.com/?p=1683#comment-1523Amen, Brother!
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Wed, 21 May 2014 20:32:33 +0000http://wwje.wordpress.com/?p=1617#comment-1439Thanks for your words of encouragement Maria!
]]>Comment on Run the Race in Such A Way… by mariakirbyhttps://wwje.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/run-the-race-in-such-a-way/#comment-1438
Wed, 21 May 2014 19:56:25 +0000http://wwje.wordpress.com/?p=1617#comment-1438God doesn’t follow a straight line to success. He wiggles us around and backs us up between Pharaoh and the Red Sea leaving us no way out but faith in him to do the impossible. Blessings on your willingness to be led on a path that is not for self gratification, but still has integrity.
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Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:49:57 +0000http://wwje.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/affluenza-treatment-2/#comment-1410Interesting. Do you have links or sources for any of this?
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Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:40:30 +0000http://wwje.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/affluenza-treatment-2/#comment-1409The book, Affluenza, if I could say, follows essentially this logic: Look how bad it is; So change! This is meant to appeal to our rational side — which means it leaves out a lot: the part of us that does not respond to the rational but “irrational” or what Nietzsche would call Dionysian, what Toynbee implores us with phrases like spiritual. aesthetic and cultural.

In other words, we possess art, lest we perish of reason(Nietzsche) In more accessible terms, we need to pay attention to some of those our deeply rooted HUMAN needs along side our physical needs for food, comfort and safety. What are they?

I worked on four needs for over three years, full-time, turning up a book-length ms with the hypothesis that if my hypothesis is right then globally I should be able to find societies that do a litter better on these four human needs, would also do better in some physically and therefore empirically proven traits such as lower rates of obesity ( or depression and diabetes)

Among the five largest world high-income democracies countries that did better on agency (self-determination), curiosity (explored by reason and senses), sexual rights, and a sensible attitude toward physical activity, they also did better on physical health such as lower obesity rates. I did it by looking at meta-analyses or large population because I was looking at country population rates.

Without going into more details, it seems, we can reduce consumer culture but to go about it is probably not telling us how bad pollution, environmental decay, and our own health has become but freeing ourselves to cherish we we seek most as human: our deepest, profoundest, and primordial longings. The diabetes rate according to the Diabetes Atlas (there is an atlas for that) in countries where women have the least of the four freedoms that I focus on is twice that of the USA. Those places are obviously not among the advanced democracies but they have enough wealth to eat all they want and watch TV their hearts but they lack most among the freedoms we as human aspire to.

To save us from overconsumtion we need a more superior pleasure to replace it with. Our lost freedoms seem to show us the way.

]]>Comment on Food in the Bible: Genesis 1:29-30 by lucashttps://wwje.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/food-in-the-bible-genesis-129-30/#comment-1402
Sun, 09 Feb 2014 13:45:52 +0000http://wwje.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/food-in-the-bible-genesis-129-30/#comment-1402Are you referring to the post or one of the comments? You’ll have to be more specific. I find it interesting that this particular post has received such lengthy and responses. We probably treat the creation accounts like a Rorschach test revealing more about ourselves than what is actually on the page.
]]>Comment on Food in the Bible: Genesis 1:29-30 by Amyhttps://wwje.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/food-in-the-bible-genesis-129-30/#comment-1401
Sun, 09 Feb 2014 09:29:49 +0000http://wwje.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/food-in-the-bible-genesis-129-30/#comment-1401That is simply not true, nor is there any information that corroborates such a viewpoint.
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